Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	49.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	85.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150224
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 07:53
Run Duration	240 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 88.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 233 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 568 62% 488 Pts	64-Core 624 39% 624 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Nvidia(10DE 1131) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (57^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	49.2% Average	Lighting 61.4 Reflection 65.3 Parallax 63.9 50% 63.5 fps	MRender 70.4 Gravity 57.9 Splatting 50.2 48% 59.5 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 319GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1728 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 229 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1614503156	92.5% Outstanding	Read 379 Write 303 Mixed 308 73% 330 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 82.9 4K Mixed 39.4 161% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 95.3 105% 180 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 134%
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 195GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11847 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2170 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 81 81 591 (AE) Unknown 100 100 170 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 44 240519151653 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 81 81 19 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 38864817817 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1230589833 (F8) Unknown 100 100 12448921	79.4% Very good	Read 371 Write 309 Mixed 338 76% 339 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 90.6 4K Mixed 26.2 125% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 47.6 76% 143 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 97%
Crucial M500 480GB-$84 9,168 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 174GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4314 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 65536 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14590 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2617 (AA) Unknown 100 100 20 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 26 (AE) Unknown 100 100 94 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1245544644835 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2553 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159413284 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 20 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	100% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 418 Mixed 445 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 30.9 140% 57.2 MB/s	DQ Read 297 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 58.5 106% 208 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 100%
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -8624294329197 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 486 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 51 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 36 54 64428048420 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 203080 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 44 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 203080 (F2) Unknown 100 100 161456 (F9) Unknown 100 100 17710	85.5% Excellent	Read 482 Write 253 Mixed 305 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 22.6 140% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 218 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 55.6 89% 169 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 91%
Toshiba THNS128GG4BAAA-NonFDE 128GB 379 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 29GB free Firmware: AGLA0203 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 22249 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3600 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 966495961520 (AA) Unknown 100 100 85908521058 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4328849699 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 75 (C2) HDA temperature 73 53 201864511515 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	24.3% Poor	Read 142 Write 84 Mixed 159 29% 128 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 16.6 4K Mixed 6.16 45% 13.8 MB/s	DQ Read 15.2 DQ Write 14.1 DQ Mixed 6.53 7% 11.9 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 24.3% Great: 36%
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB-$136 7,908 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 444GB free Firmware: SD15 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51111667 (03) Spinup time 92 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13658 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 429630755148 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34523 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 41 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4204 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 62 62 38 (BE) vendor-specific 67 44 39209861153 (C2) HDA temperature 33 56 60129542177 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 16 51111667 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	46.1% Average	Read 75.8 Write 84.6 Mixed 66.8 57% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.41 103% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GB 7,519 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.4% Average	MC Read 16.3 MC Write 17.6 MC Mixed 14.6 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 16.2 45% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 68.7 58% 68.7 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 119%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,695x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	312x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	251x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	526x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	257x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	198x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	174x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	126x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	183x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	158x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	102x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16